eBooks

FIU Law Library provides access to Lexis Digital Libraries, providing access to primary law, as well as popular and recommended legal education and practitioner support series from Lexis Nexis, The Florida Bar and Carolina Academic presses:

• Understanding
• Q&A
• Mastering
• Courtroom Manuals
• Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education
• Multivolume Sets and Treatises
• AND MUCH MORE!

Your Lexis Digital Library provides easy filtering of titles by subject and series, as well as recommended titles for:

• Study Supplements
• Academic Success

Your Lexis Digital Library is tied to your FIU credentials. Your Account enables you to check out and annotate titles. For detailed instructions on accessing and using Lexis Digital Library titles, please review these documents, and Ask a Law Librarian for your app access code:

• Lexis Digital Library Getting Started Guide
• Lexis Digital Library App for Offline Reading
• Lexis Digital Library Multi Volume Search
• Lexis Digital Library Study Aids Flyer

All Lexis Digital Library access instructions can be found in the Help section on the top right of the Digital Library top navigation menu.

To download ebooks and audiobooks for annotation and offline use these instructions:

• Getting Started Guide
• How to Use the Digital Library Offline
• How to Download Titles
• Lexis Digital App for Offline Reading
• eBook Reading Made Easy
• eBook Annotation Features

Your Lexis Digital Library Account is tied to your FIU credentials. When logging into Lexis Digital Libraries, you must enter your @fiu.edu email and associated password to access Lexis Digital Libray.

Once logged in, your Account details are listed in the Account menu, where you can manage your books, annotations, reading queue, and tags.

If you need Help, you can access Lexis Digital Library and OverDrive access instructions using the Account menu toggle:

or learn how to Get Started through the link under your ebook library:

Using Your Digital Library

Lexis Digital Library is powered by OverDrive. eBooks checked out via Digital Library have unique checkout restrictions and policies.

Help Portal

Access Help content from the My Account toggle menu:

Offline Reading Code

For offline reading, you will need FIU Law's unique code to use Lexis Digital Library ebook apps: fiu

Lexis Digital Library Training

LexisNexis provides a wide variety of assistance for Digital Library through the Help section. The print or PDF Getting Started step-by-step guide is enhanced online through the Getting Started portal:

Additionally, you can learn how to use Lexis Digital Library by searching by topic in the Using LexisNexis Digital Library portal or browsing through topics such as finding titles, ebook and audiobook features, and managing tags:

Troubleshooting

Still having trouble accessing Digital Library ebooks or audiobooks? Receiving an error message? You can Troubleshoot issues through the Troubleshooting portal:

FIU Law Library provides access to West Academic Study Aids subscription, providing access to popular and recommended legal education support series from Foundation and West Academic presses:

• Nutshell Series
• Short & Happy Guides
• Sum & Substance Audio
• Global Issues
• AND MUCH MORE!

Your West Academic Study Aids library provides easy filtering of titles by subject and series, those written by FIU Law faculty, as well as recommended titles for:

• Academic Success
• 1L Year
• 2L, 3L and Upper Levels
• Career Success

You can customize your West Academic Study Aid Library by clicking "Create an Account" and following the prompts to customize your experience and save titles to your personal library.

The West Academic Library App allows you to download, read and annotate up to 30 titles without internet connectivity. You can download the West Academic Library App for iOS or Android, or your Desktop, by following these steps:

1. Access West Academic Study Aids at https://libguides.law.fiu.edu/westacademicstudyaids 
2. Navigate to "The West Academic Library App" to Study Anywhere on any device: https://subscription.westacademic.com/read-offline 
3. Follow the steps to download the app appropriate for your device.
4. Sign in using your West Academic My Account information.

Follow these steps to Create an Account in West Academic Study Aids:

1. Go to https://libguides.law.fiu.edu/westacademicstudyaids 
2. Select your status at FIU Law from the radio bullet list.
3. Fill in the contact form with your @fiu.edu email address as your username. West Academic requires that you use your @fiu.edu email address to Create an Account.
4. Follow the prompts and authenticate your username by acknowledging the verification email from West Academic.

Once created, your West Academic account is universal across West Academic platforms. 

Off Campus Access Authentication

If you are trying to access West Academic Study Aids off-campus, and are not automatically authenticated, please open a new browser window or tab and click on "Off Campus Access" from the FIU Law Library home page. Login with your @fiu.edu credentials to identify your off campus browser with FIU access authentication.

West Academic Account Troubleshooting

Once created, your West Academic account is universal across West Academic platforms. If you find that you are not being authenticated as an FIU Law user, follow these steps to properly associate your West Academic account:

1. Go https://libguides.law.fiu.edu/westacademicstudyaids
2. Sign in.
3. In the top right, click "Hello [FirstName] [LastName]" and select "My Account" from the drop-down list that appears.
4. On the My Account page, in the "My School/Organization" section, enter your @fiu.edu email. If you already provided your email address and you see a message that email verification is pending, click to resend the verification email.
5. Check your email and click the link in the email from West Academic. The email link opens a page where you sign in, and access is turned on.

FIU Law Library provides access to a curated collection of Edward Elgar ebooks and open access titles through Elgaronline, the online content platform for Edward Elgar Publishing. To support the international focus of FIU Law's legal education, Elgar Advanced Introductions: Law provides clear and succinct introductions by the world's leading scholars.

Elgaronline

The Elgaronline Tailored Collection covers global and comparative law spanning a wide range of subject areas. Additional open access titles through Elgaronline cover global and comparative law spanning a wide range of subject areas and publication formats, founded on the twin pillars of quality and originality, and serving all levels of the global academic market. Elgaronline titles not only interpret and articulate the law but also innovate and challenge the status quo, often comparing systems or drawing lessons from other disciplines. This global and comparative law collection provides users with the latest research from some of the world’s leading experts. Subjects include: Comparative Law, Energy Law, Environmental Law, Labor Law, Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Public and Private International Law, Intellectual Property Law, Islamic Law, International Technology Law and more.

• Elgaronline
• Elgaronline Tailored Collection

Elgar Advanced Introductions

Edward Elgar Advanced Introductions introduce you to major fields of law from a global and comparative perspective. The Advanced Introductions pinpoint essential principles of a particular field and offer insights to simulate critical thinking to further undestanding of of the legal field in area as international sales law, international intellectual property, tax law, humanitarian loaw, private international law and procedure, trade law and other subject. Subjects include: International Conflict and Security Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Environmental Law, International Intellectual Property, International Sales Law, Private Law, Private International Law and Procedure, Freedom of Expression, Comparative Constitutional Law, Law and Globalisation, International Tax Law, and European Union Law.

• Elgar Advanced Introductions

FIU Law user access to Elgaronline and Elgar Advanced Introductions is authenticated by IP range and referring URL. To toggle between the open access content and Tailored collection ebooks in Elgaronline, click the "Browse" tab then see 'REFINE BY ACCESS' on left-hand side and click on 'All accessible content.' You will see that the access circle next to FIU Law's content is now green. Use the links provided via the Law Library's eResources list to authenticate as an FIU Law user:

• Elgaronline
• Elgaronline Tailored Collection
• Elgar Advanced Introductions

FIU Law titles on Elgaronline allow for unlimited simultaneous user access, however, cannot be read in full offline; you can download on a chapter-by-chapter basis by clicking the "Download PDF" button. Elgar Advanced Introduction titles allow for unlimited simultaneous user access but are not downloadable, however, you can copy and paste content into word processing software. 

Off Campus Access Authentication

If you are trying to access Elgaronline or Advanced Introductions off-campus, and are not automatically authenticated, please open a new browser window or tab and click on "Off Campus Access" from the FIU Law Library home page. Login with your @fiu.edu credentials to identify your off campus browser with FIU access authentication.

Using Elgaronline

Once created, your West Academic account is universal across West Academic platforms. If you find that you are not being authenticated as an FIU Law user, follow these steps to properly associate your West Academic account:

• Print, Cite, Share, or Email Content
• Searching and Browsing
• Using Book and Chapter Pages

Troubleshooting

If you are having trouble accessing or using Elgaronline or Advanced Introductions, please contact FIU Law Library via our Ask a Law Librarian service.

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